Software Engineer at a Venture Capital Studio 
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: FP
Salary range: 50000-70000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Not Applicable
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Based in Hoxton, London, Forward Partners are a “startup catalyst”, combining investment with practical hands-on expertise and insight.We're investors in very early stage ecommerce companies.  Our team have the experience to enable entrepreneurs to succeed.  We do more than advise and mentor. We help the best entrepreneurs quickly find a great product-market fit with our expertise in customer discovery, coding, design, customer acquisition, testing and analysis as well as offering office space.Companies invested in include: Hailo, Zopa, Wool and the Gang, Thread, Big Health, Stylect, Makers Academy, Blik Book, DriftRock, Top10, SnapTrip, Loyalty Bay and Appear Here

Job description:
Forward Partners invest in very early stage e-commerce startups and help them to grow.  We have an in-house team of designers, marketers and product managers who work with the founders of these companies and guide them through their growth and development.You might have heard of some of the companies we've helped and invested in already - Hailo, Zopa, Wool and the Gang, Thread, Big Health, Stylect, Makers Academy, #URL_5e07a935c285960c1778838c4eb735aedb124df9b86a50949ced9254889f8446#, DriftRock, Top10, SnapTrip, Loyalty Bay and Appear Here.We're looking for a skilled developer, who can make our entrepreneurs ideas a reality. You'll build prototypes, offer expert guidance and make suggestions for innovations all working in an agile fashion with the company founders and Forward Partners team.  Ideally, you'll comfortable making architectural choices and enjoy getting your hands dirty.  You'll own every stage of coding, testing and deployment. You’ll advise on the appropriate tech stack and agile methodologies suited to the stage of the development.When we work with single founders we are often working completely from scratch, some may only have a landing page, some may already have a thriving e-commerce business, some may have an app that already has thousands of users, both the variety and challenge is endless.You will be deeply involved in all aspects of the startups that you are developing for, understanding their business problems and solving for them with a lean mindset.Additionally, you'll have the chance to develop a thought leadership position in the startup community and we’ll encourage you to build your reputation through blogging, speaking and networking.

Requirements:
About youYou should be expert in one language and an aptitude for learning others.  We don't know what the tech stack of our future investments might be so if you love to learn you'll be great! (At the moment we have Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, Objective C, Clojure, Scala)You have a deep passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess - eventually a new startup team will be working with your codebase.  You should take pride in your ability to build something they'll love. Ideally you'll have a solid repertoire of front-end skills but we don’t expect you to be a designer (we have one already!) - (e.g. CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, Ajax)You are passionate about open-source and have a keen interest in current and future trendsYou enjoy working in small multi-functional teams at paceWhy are we recruiting for this role?  Our current in-house developers have gone on to be technical co-founders for companies we have funded and they have helped to grow...you might even be next! 

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